Woow.

All these years I have been slogging away making jerseys, cardigans and jackets - I should have been turning out Argyll socks.

The 'only' really comfortable yarn for socks worn with shoes are quite fine - two or maybe three ply at the most in UK terms. The best yarn is a mixture of 80 to 90 percent wooll and 20 to 10 percent Nylon - and it is probably quite expensive to find nice ones in the right colours - even so, those prices are rather astonishing.

Synthetic yarn socks which unravel are really not the thing - good socks last decades, at least they do for me, when I make them.

I used to make my hiking socks - and that was - 40 years ago - I would estimate their normal lifespan at about 20 years.

It surely can't be impossible to find someone to knit Argyll socks - it isn't exactly rocket science.